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Today, the government have confirmed it will make major concessions to Labour rebels over its planned benefits reforms.

Adam and Chris were back in the Newscast studio on Friday morning to run through how news of the U-turn broke late on Thursday night.

And, they're joined by Alex and Faisal to unpack the week's political news - including key takeaways from the Nato summit in the Netherlands, including how Donald Trump came to be referred to as ‘daddy’.

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The UK government has confirmed a U-turn on its cuts to disability benefits in a bid to avert a rebellion by more than 120 Labour backbenchers.

People who currently receive personal independence payments (Pip), or the health element of universal credit, will continue to do so.

Instead, changes will apply only to new claimants from November 2026.

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The US is to give $30m in funding to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) which is a US and Israeli backed body, set up to distribute aid in Gaza.

It’s the first known direct US funding for the group, which has four sites for delivering aid in the south of Gaza.

On Tuesday, the UN said more than 400 Palestinians had been killed in recent weeks by Israeli military while trying to collect food at the distribution sites.

The GHF, backed by armed US contractors and Israeli troops, has been operating in the Gaza Strip since the end of May, following an 11-week aid blockade by Israel.

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ran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has now acknowledged what he called serious damage to three nuclear sites in the country which were bombed by the US.

He said an assessment was underway, however, he disputed US President Donald Trump’s assertion that there would be US Iranian talks next week, saying no such plan had been set.

The BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet, is in Iran’s capital of Tehran and is allowed to report from there, on the condition that coverage is not use on the BBC Persian service which is broadcast to people in Iran.

This law applies to all international media agencies operating in Iran.

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Iran's supreme leader has insisted the US "gained no achievements" from strikes on its nuclear facilities, in his first public address since a ceasefire with Israel was agreed.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the strikes did not "accomplish anything significant" to disrupt Iran's nuclear programme, and said his country’s retaliation against an American air base in Qatar had dealt a "heavy blow" to the United States.

It came as Washington doubled down on its assessment that the strikes had severely undermined Iran's nuclear ambitions. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said intelligence gathered by the US and Israel indicated the operation "significantly damaged the nuclear programme, setting it back by years".

Previously, US President Donald Trump said the strikes against three key nuclear sites inside Iran "totally obliterated" them. He gad also responded furiously to a leaked US intelligence report which suggested that Iran’s uranium enrichment programme had only been set back by a few months.

Hegseth said the mission was a "historic success" and that the the enrichment facilities were now “inoperable".

He said said the US was "not aware of any intelligence" which indicated the enriched uranium had been moved out of once facility, Fordo, prior to the Us attack.

Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Lyse Doucet in Tehran.

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Today, can Keir Starmer stop a rebellion from his own party over proposed welfare cuts?

Adam is joined by Luke Sullivan, Keir Starmer’s former political director, to discuss the leadership strategy and the current political challenge.

Also, columnist and author Sarah Vine speaks to Adam ahead of the release of her new book 'How Not to Be a Political Wife', sharing how Brexit led to the end of her marriage to Michael Gove and giving a behind the scenes look at life around politics.

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Thailand is trying to rein in its free-wheeling marijuana market.

Its government has approved new measures that went into effect on Wednesday restricting the sale of the drug to those with a doctor's prescription, in the hope of helping regulate an industry some describe as out of control.

The south-east Asian nation's public health minister has also said that consumption of marijuana will be criminalised again, although it's unclear when that could happen.

Ever since the drug was decriminalised in 2022, there has been a frenzy of investment. There are now around 11,000 registered cannabis dispensaries in Thailand.

So far this year, 173 people accused of smuggling cannabis – nearly all from Thailand – have gone through the court system in the UK and received sentences totalling 230 years.

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William "mezii" Merriman has made history by becoming the first Brit to win a Counter-Strike Major.

New dad Mezii was one of the Team Vitality players who won the BLAST tv Austin Major in the US, a win which netted the team $500,000.

He sat down with BBC's Newsbeat to discuss how he got into playing video games professionally, what it was like to compete in a Major final and what it was like to make history as the first Brit to win.

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Warning: Contains descriptions of sexual exploitation

This BBC investigation reveals exploitation and abuse in the booming global webcam sex industry, where live sexual performances are streamed to millions of men worldwide.

With nearly 15 billion views across major platforms last year, the demand is enormous - and so are the consequences.

In countries like Colombia, where webcamming can be a lucrative option amid poverty, models share disturbing experiences: streaming from cramped cubicles, being fined for toilet breaks, coerced into degrading acts, and in some cases, recruited as minors.

This story offers rare access and powerful first-hand accounts, exposing the darker realities of one of the fastest-growing sectors of the global sex industry.

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A senior Hamas official told the BBC that mediators have intensified their efforts to broker a new ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza, but that negotiations with Israel remain stalled.

The comments came as US President Donald Trump said "great progress" was being made since Israel and Iran ended their 12-day war on Tuesday, and that his envoy Steve Witkoff thought an agreement between Israel and Hamas was "very close".

Israeli attacks across Gaza on Wednesday killed at least 45 Palestinians, including some who were seeking aid, the Hamas-run health ministry said.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military announced that seven soldiers were killed in a bomb attack on Tuesday claimed by Hamas.

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